Sweetwater, Tennessee
Lost Sea
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
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Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Jarbidge, Nevada
One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.
Fallon, Nevada
Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.
Henderson, Nevada
Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.
Austin, Nevada
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Boulder City, Nevada
Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Biddeford, Maine
Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.
Hancock, Maine
Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.
Jonesport, Maine
An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.
Kennebunkport, Maine
The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.
Ellsworth, Maine
This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
Pearl River, Louisiana
Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.
Northwest Piscataquis, Maine
Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Tok, Alaska
This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
Haines, Alaska
The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.